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Subject: Re: Difficulty in installing Rebel 10 (Attn: Ed Schroder)

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 18:37:39 11/17/98

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On November 17, 1998 at 17:57:13, Dr. Robert Larmer wrote:

>Dear Mr. Schroder,
>     The problem I have in installing Rebel 10 appears to lie in the fact that
>my cdrom-drive is labelled G.  When I attempted to install Rebel 10 on a machine
>in which the cdrom drive is D everything went smoothly.  Unfortunately, on my
>machine I have a 4.2 gigabyte drive that is partionned so that D is already
>spoken for.
>     When I try to install Rebel 10 through windows I get the message that it
>cannot find the file 'g:\install'.  When I try to install it through DOS I get
>the message 'not ready reading drive G'.

Whwn exiting to dos from Windows (ie: Resstart Computer in dos mode)
Win95 looks for the "Exit to Dos" file on your computer and activates
the commands in this file. These commands include similar lines as when we
used to boot up into dos. This "Exit to Dos" file has a config.sys and an
Autoexec.bat configuration. If in the Config.sys and autoexec.bat there are no
cdrom drivers loaded then the cdrom will not work in dos mode. This was a
vexxing problem for many when Win95 first came out. Lots of folks were saying,
"where did my CDrom drive go?"

When you exit to dos and type this: cd g:
does it say not reading drive g? If so then you need to
load your dos cdrom drivers. I can walk you through this if you are not
familiar with this process. You can e-mail me.




>     My question is what do I do now?  I would welcome your suggestions.
>
>Sincerely
>Bob Larmer



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